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  • 07 Aug 2012
  • Working Paper Summaries

Financial vs. Strategic Buyers

Keywords: by Marc Martos-Vila, Matthew Rhodes-Kropf & Jarrad Harford

    The Money of Invention: How Venture Capital Creates New Wealth

    When the economy was booming and dot-coms were flying high, venture capitalists were admired as impresarios of innovation. Then the market tanked, start-ups fizzled, and those same deal-makers were rebuked as predators out for a quick score. So... View Details
    • 01 Dec 2008
    • Lessons from the Classroom

    How Many U.S. Jobs Are ‘Offshorable’?

    The controversial topic of offshoring U.S. jobs may have been shoved out of the headlines by recent events, but it remains front and center for senior business leaders operating in an increasingly global, competitive economy. To give MBAs... View Details
    Keywords: by Julia Hanna
    • January 2008
    • Article

    Where Will We Find Tomorrow's Leaders?

    By: Linda A. Hill
    Unless we challenge long-held assumptions about how business leaders are supposed to act and where they're supposed to come from, many people who could become effective global leaders will remain invisible, warns Harvard Business School professor Hill. Instead of... View Details
    Keywords: Talent and Talent Management; Globalization; Innovation Leadership; Leadership Development; Leadership Style; Situation or Environment; Personal Characteristics
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    Faculty & Research - Business & Environment

    in startups contributing to ocean sustainability, faced a critical investment decision. Part of SWEN Capital Partners, an 8 billion, Paris-based private equity fund, Blue Ocean was co-founded in... October 2024 Teaching Material Risks,... View Details
    • 26 Sep 2023
    • Book

    Digital Strategy: A Handbook for Managing a Moving Target

    this introduction to the book, the three coeditors say we need new methods to better understand “the moving target of the digital world.” Introduction: Digital Strategy—Linear Evolution or Paradigm Shift Digital has become a pervasive aspect of the economy, with... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Information Technology; Technology

      Robert C. Merton

      Robert C. Merton is the School of Management Distinguished Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

      Merton is University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University and was the George Fisher Baker Professor of... View Details

      Keywords: banking; brokerage; financial services; insurance industry; investment banking industry; retail financial services
      • 18 Mar 2024
      • Research & Ideas

      When It Comes to Climate Regulation, Energy Companies Take a More Nuanced View

      Common wisdom holds that oil and gas companies, electric utilities, and other industries known for their large carbon emissions generally oppose clean energy policies. Now, a study of corporate advocacy spanning 30 years reveals that many companies are more flexible... View Details
      Keywords: by Desmond Dodd; Energy; Utilities
      • Web

      Hands-on Learning About Global Markets - MBA

      Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st Year (RC) 2+2 Program 2nd Year... View Details
      • 25 Jun 2013
      • First Look

      First Look: June 25

      Network Methods to Map Product Architecture By: Baldwin, Carliss Y., Alan MacCormack, and John Rusnak Abstract—In this paper, we describe an operational methodology for characterising the architecture of technical systems and demonstrate... View Details
      Keywords: Anna Secino
      • Web

      Finance - Faculty & Research

      Mortgage Convexity By: Samuel G. Hanson Most home mortgages in the United States are fixed-rate loans with an embedded prepayment option. When long-term rates decline, the effective duration of mortgage-backed securities (MBS) falls due... View Details
      • Teaching

      Overview

      By: Regina E. Herzlinger
      Course Requirements

      Students are required to prepare a business plan, which employs the framework of this course, to explore an entrepreneurial opportunity in health care, and to evaluate their classmates' plans.

      Career Focus

      For... View Details
      • 10 Jun 2014
      • First Look

      First Look: June 10

      growing evidence of pollution and resulting political pressures. The variety of capitalism literature has suggested that the German coordinated market economy model was more conducive to green corporate strategies than View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • Web

      About - Business & Environment

      holds a PhD in Economics and Finance from the University of St. Gallen, an MPhil in Economics from the University of Oxford, and a BSc in Economics from the University of Bern. His research focuses on various aspects of political View Details
      • Web

      Healthy Outcomes - Managing the Future of Work

      2019 | VOA: Press Conference USA An Economy of Talent: Harvard’s Bill Kerr On ‘Talent Immigrants’ Jeff Cunningham 29 Jan 2019 | Chief Executive Thinkers50: William Kerr 21 Jan 2019 | Thinkers50 The Stealth... View Details
      • March 2021 (Revised March 2024)
      • Case

      M-KOPA: Empowering Lives

      By: V. Kasturi Rangan, Wale Lawal and Pippa Tubman Armerding
      The Pay As You Go solar power company in East Africa had sales of $71 million in 2019. It wished to grow to $300 million by 2025. M-KOPA, founded by three entrepreneurs in 2011, had grown nicely in Kenya and Uganda to reach nearly 750,000 households with an innovative... View Details
      Keywords: Mobile Payment; Go-to-market Strategy; Business At The Base Of The Pyramid; Business Growth; Social Entrepreneurship; Renewable Energy; Business Model; Growth and Development Strategy; Expansion; Marketing Strategy; Developing Countries and Economies; Kenya; Uganda; Nigeria
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      Accelerating Solutions - Business & Environment

      does society need to finance a decarbonized future? Investors weigh in. Highlights Video Full Panel Video Collaboration, Living Wages, Trade-focused Education to Drive a Climate Workforce Building a climate workforce requires herculean efforts – and sometimes close... View Details
      • 25 Jan 2021
      • Book

      In a Nutshell, Why American Capitalism Succeeded

      How did the United States become the world’s center of business growth following its founding in 1776? Surely a number of nations had powerful natural resources, stable financial and legal institutions, and dynamic entrepreneurs over that same span. Why was American... View Details
      Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Manufacturing
      • 09 Jan 2014
      • Research & Ideas

      The Entrepreneurs Who Invented Economic Forecasting

      chronicles a host of academics, businessmen and, yes, charlatans who ultimately failed to foresee the biggest economic event of the twentieth century: The Great Depression. In an e-mail interview, Friedman, director of the HBS Business... View Details
      Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
      • 14 Oct 2013
      • Research & Ideas

      Time that Government Reopens for Business

      age. Beyond that, to keep the US economy strong, if you want to improve employment levels in this country, you have to consider removing barriers to hiring such as overly liberal interpretations of workers'... View Details
      Keywords: by Jim Aisner